Icewind Dale, the Frozen North | D&D Lore
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- Episode 152! We talk about Icewind Dale! The Frozenfar north of the Spine of the World. Home to R.A. Salvatore's Crystal Shard storyline, as well as other countless adventures. Video games, novels, adventures! There's a lot happening in this area and lots of room for great adventures!
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"They say the ancient white dragon Arveiaturace went mad with loss and strapped the wizard's corpse to her back, and to this day talks to it as if it were still alive"
Me: "He's probably a lich."
"Near uninhabitable."
Thats literally exactly our weather in Canada😂😂
haha! Canadians are stronger than other folk :)
@@Jorphdan lol! Yea, -40c is definitely cold, but it's NOT the North. Though these days with melted ice packs and flows it's surprisingly warm North. Hell, Nunavut was +24c yesterday and it's mid June! Best get out the summer mukluks!
@@Jorphdan A few guys from the Nordic countries would like to have a talk with you... ;-)
I was just thinking that lol. I live in the boundary waters on the US side and the weather here is that
-53 Celsius this winter on the low end. (Southern-central Alberta)
Pretty decent.
Pal: damn this place is cold, I'll call it Icewind Pal.
Dale: Ive got a better idea.
Excellent and timely video, Jorphdan! Thank you! Can't wait to learn more as details of the new book are revealed!
The video was a cool insider into the history of Icewind dale, thanks dude. A big help for my Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign
Crystal Shard made this one of my favourite areas.
Literally finished the 3rd Drizzt last night. Proper timing, thank you sir!
Oh god your on an amazing journey filled with alot of great moments and moments that'll make you cry, i just bought Boundless, ive lost count of how many books are in the whole series (somewhere around 30) but they are sooo good that you'll be caught up and waiting on the next one before you realize it
Icewind Dale, is one of my favorite parts of Faerun. Great video! Enjoy your Wednesday!💯🙏👐
Thank you Jorphdan for your audio info. Having dyslexia makes it hard to pour through all this info.
Rumors of a coming Icewind Dale adventure and Jorfffdan posts a video about it?
HMMMM
I love the use of the video game art. The game is what got me into D&D as a kid.
Nice!
FYI - a ‘Cairn’ (Keh-rn) is a pile of rocks traditionally compiled by mountaineers who reach the top of a mountain. You get to the top, add a rock to the cairn.
I thought it was the rocks you toss on your dead buddy so the animals don't tear'em apart.
The ground is frozen so no burials.
I've only ever heard cairn to refer to a more-or-less "above ground" burial, done by piling stones over the corpse.
@bard.college A cairn (carn, curn, never keh-rn) is a pile of rocks in which there is a corpse, it was an ancient form of burial observed by many early cultures, especially throughout Europe. Climbers used a similar yet much smaller stone piling practice to mark 'i wuz here', which has unfortunately also been referred to as cairn thanks to their superficial similarity.
Thank you so much for these videos, I loved FR. reading the stories and playing in the setting was amazing, I have been heartbroken to see the novels have basically ended. Watching your videos brings back so much nostalgia. Keep it up 👍
ah yes good to refresh my memory on this place especially with the new adventure on the way.
Also as far as the northern glacier, if you go to the far Eastern side of the glacier which is really far, you will find a city that's basically a giant greenhouse called sossul, I found it in an Old second ed book that had a map of the glacier. There's also a lot of settlements of wild dwarfs
I've been looking for everything I can find on Sossal, just because I like torturing myself. Do you think you could either tell me what you know of it or provide a link to the book you're referring to?
It'd be much appreciated.
@@freduruk6623 google and years ago i stumbled into a torrent of 2e books.there's a book that even has a bunch of faerun gods in 2e that has fluff and talks about what the clergy breaks down into. waukeen's are profit prophets lol.
Legacy of the Crystal Shard from the dnd next era was a very nice gazetteer.
Super. Just what I came for. Nice dude talking about IWD Lore to wake up my imagination and refresh knowledge. Very informative video. I loved the recommendation at the end. I appreciate your work! Thank You so much
Jorphdan, you killed it on this one. I very much appreciate you. I'm an Icewind Dale superfan. You do good things for the community.
Thanks so much! :D
Solace is the eleventh town apparently.
Ye I thought I saw the 9 heroes there 4 a sec.....hey where tf....is Dragonlance for D and D...and even MTG...how amazing would it b 2 hear that the new Magic set is called Dragonlance.....?...oh 2 dream......
Solace is in dragon Lance not forgotten realms
Well this pretty much confirms the Icewind Dale book
Awesome video! I've read almost every Drizzt Do'Urden book, but the Icewind Dale Trilogy and Dark Elf Trilogy are my favorites!
Speaking of Dales, as always, Jorphdan, I'm gunna bug you about the individual Daleland videos, (Shadowdale, Battledale, Featherdale, etc!) Those would be most interesting to learn more about! Thanks as always, and keep up the great content!
Love the Forgotten realms. My favorite setting for D&D. Thanks for the content.
Great video, as always! I loved how wild and treacherous I could be when running Storm King's. Thanks for all the hard work you put into your videos
Glad you enjoyed it!
So Icewind Dale has the same weather that we get in Winnipeg. Good to know haha.
yaaas. my most awaited topic. Grew up playing the games and reading the books of the frigid north!!
nice!
I play neverwinter, so you learn a lot of lore on this stuff! Ughh, I love d&d! Lol
Yeah you definitely had some advanced information when you decided to make your Crystal Shard video some time ago. Looking forward to them announcing the Icewind Dale book tomorrow.
Great, succinct video. Really helpful to start knowing about the lore before running the module! :)
Good luck with Rime of the Frostmaiden! It seems like a super fun adventure :D
Can I get a hail yeah my fellow ice fans with a cool calm and collected demeanor along with unwavering harsh and chilling determination and frozen solid will
One thing that doesn't get talked about in Salvatore books is something my friends and I found digging through old books from way back. Icewind Dale is a salt flat so they are able to farm and do all kinds of crap it's not blizzard year round it's actually a slightly less crappy replacement it's actually described LOL
6:50 - When I see Yoshitaka Amano's artwork I can't help but think of Final Fantasy.
I am new to the world of dungeons and dragons. I really enjoy watching your videos.
Welcome! Glad you're here and enjoying them :D Game on!
Thanks! Great Video Jorphdan!
Glad you liked it!
Icewind Dale is just my city lol!! I live in Winnipeg... -40 weather, pffft! Excuse me while I sip on my slurpee in the frigid cold! (We are also the slurpee capital of the world, 15+ years running)
I love ya for trying with the names man, no matter the outcome lol, they can be difficult
1:46 I noticed that Neil Gaiman's *the Sandman*.
Great info, thanks dude
Good information
I haven’t read the books for decades.
Goliaths be survivin up there no problem lol
JorphdanthePHissilent's videos are so wholesome.
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Yay! Thank you!
Love your videos wish they were longer though. They are very interesting and easy to listen to.
2:36 - Like most Forgotten Realms... as a Dragonlance cover is diplayed
"It can get to -40 at winter"
Citizens of Yakutsk: You call that a challenge?
icewind dale is an awesome game, just gets better as the game progresses.
It’s wild to me that there are like minimum ten different sapient species that build cities etc and they have apparently been around for like countless aeons and yet there are still “frontier land” supposedly untouched by civilization.
Not sure when this video was made but waterdeeps population at last glance was far higher. in 1372 it was estimated at 1,347,680 and currently stands around 2Million
haha, wait a minute is this the Canada of the forgotten realms?, I mean where I live we can get up to -56c to -60 in winter months, and +30c in summer months.
No
Timely video with the recent leak of the 2020 adventure
All of the Silver Marches including Icewind Dale is basically Skyrim.
I finished the whole forgotten realms video series. Now what? A quest to find the Silent PH
Or start Eberron Lore videos!
Guess my idea of a Drow settlement in the north would have to be a semi-nomadic tribe.
*LOVE FOR DRIZZT INTENSIFIES*
Awesome videos as always Jorphdan! Have you ever thought of doing Exandria Lore videos?
I have! It's a possibility, and I have half a video written on the deities.
@@Jorphdan I smell a new series coming on! This would actually be incredible, the lore of the deities and the Divergence/Calamity is such a good concept
Hey Be'lakor Stone's Reach album cover. Nice choice
The Dwarves in the cairne aren't allied with the Dwarves of the Battlehammer clan... They ARE the Battlehammer clan.
Nice called shot
Oh a white dragon you say? Icelingdeath perhaps
I mean Akar Kessle couldn't even cast magic missle at a cat 🐈 on his own! 😏😉🤫
Ooooof the pronunciations in this one 🤣
I have a character idea for the upcoming book where i play as an old former Orc warchief of a tribe near blackford road, exiled by his son and forced to cross the spine of the world on his own before seeking refuge in the Ten towns, looking for a reason to continue living past his prime.
I find it strange that Kelvin's Cairn is only 1000 foot tall. I would have hoped for something more Impressive than 300 metres. Mt Everest is 25000 feet tall!
Yeah when I ran The Kelvin's Cairn rescue mission I made it 20,000 ft and it took the party several gruelling days to climb to the top.
Cairn is pronounced like "urn", but with "care" instead of the "u" sound. It's Celtic, meaning a pile of stones, usually denoted for burial spots.
So it's pronounced like "urn" but it's not pronounced like "urn" because it doesn't have the "u" sound? Ok. Better to say "care" with an "n" added at the end.
Thanks for doing these videos as always. In case it hasn't been mentioned "cairn" is pronounced /kern/. If you Google the word and click the speaker button you can hear the pronunciation. Too made you can't do the same with a lot of FR names, eh?
Sounds like Saskatoon
Cairn is an ancient pile of rocks, or a circle of rocks. And by ancient I mean the Neolithic or before. It's pronounced sorta like saying 'car' in American, with an 'n' on the end.
Wow, released this vid and the next day D&D announces a campaign set there.
Clearly, you have a finger on the pulse of WOTC.
haha thanks :) There were clues, and a video I've been meaning to make for a while.
That pour white dragon
Dam an SCTV reference
Based on the average temperatures you gave, it's not that bad, just a little colder than Moscow, where I used to live. It's far from properly actic.
What is the source of the map at (1:59)???
Yeah it's any kind of reminds me of norsca from the Warhammer fantasy universe has frozen hell-hole for miser
Solace is in dragonlance not forgotten realms
Kelvin...as in the third option (compared to Celsius and Fahrenheit). Normally, WotC is actually super creative. Kelvin’s Cairn tho... hard facepalm.
It's like Montreal...
So the new book is a horror story in Alaska???
May i ask? Where are those official looking maps from?
Sundering Adventure II: Legacy of the Crystal Shard - www.drivethrurpg.com/product/166079/Legacy-of-the-Crystal-Shard-Next?affiliate_id=728035
@@Jorphdan Thanks man. Great content
1:33 What is the name of this monster?
forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Remorhaz
All I heard was that there is a lunch that rides a white dragon. Somebody needs to expand on that lol.
lol are you the same dude from podcastage? Ikeep hearing your voice and it sounds so familliar and then you said doobily doo and it made me wonder.
umm, nope! I'm not on podcastage! Lots of people say doobily doo though :) It's a underground TH-cam thing!
knowyourmeme.com/memes/doobly-doo
@@Jorphdan Ah good to know thanks for the videos they have been keeping me very entertained while at home.
So...Icwind Dale is basically Canada.
So Icewind Dale is just Canada ? -
Hah! Cheeky! 😂
👍
Soo Icewind Dale is Syberia but with magic?
This doesn't have anything 2 do w the new RIME of the FROSTMAIDEN.....does it...?
sounds like a loaded question.
Is this video about Icewind Dale, the surrounding area, and Forgotten Realms Lore? YES
Is this a spoiler video on the new WotC Story-line of which NOBODY knows its contents because it was just announced. NO
@@Jorphdan my question was only loaded w love ...my friend...in these dark times....I find comfort and solace within the space between spaces...and for that...I am grateful....b well...keep up the awesome content....and have a good weekend......
Icewind dale is based off Fargo north Dakota lol
Spoilers? I'm running this game and don't know how much of this is spoilers- If I can show this video to my party, please someone tell me?
This video came out before Icewind Dale Rime of the Frostmaiden. So there won't be story spoilers. i have older history on the area in general. Your call if it's suitable for your players or not.
Man, someone needs to inject Unreal Engine into rebuilding this game as well as Baldurs gate 2
Crenshinibon...the worst named thing in all dnd
So D&D: Skyrim Edition???
I still hate that traitor druid from the icewind dale game
Why do people pronounce the double z in Drizzt with just an s sound? It's Dritst, just like pizza is pronounced pitsa
Hey Jorphdan, you know how you made a lore video about elves? How would making a dwarf lore video sounds like? I've read something quite interesting like them being reincarnated too like elves. twitter.com/TheEdVerse/status/1256400572636372992
i did!
th-cam.com/video/cNzo6cyxQYs/w-d-xo.html
interesting tweet thanks!
@@Jorphdan here is the full tweet just in case you only got part 2 and 3 out of it.
Just as in our real world, “after death” is a mystery to the living.
Priests, deities, and the servitors of deities (“angels” and the like) make various claims, and a lot of these contradict each other.
Dwarves valiant in battle often believe their souls wind up in a hall of heroes where they feast and brawl and practise until the gods have need of them to do battle, or to be “reforged” (by Moradin, at his forge) into new dwarves and sent back to live again.
Dwarf smiths and crafters believe the afterlife that awaits them is a series of spacious, wonderfully-equipped workshops where they can fulfillingly create ever-better items, knowing true satisfaction and becoming ever better at creating items that are innovative as well as ever-better-made.
Dwarf clerics believe they are the “true servants” of the (dwarven) gods, and will be first to be chosen to serve anew as a new dwarf living a new life.
Many mortals, of various races, have sages and learned priests who hold that the souls of the dead gravitate to the plane that is the home of the deity the living mortal most worshipped or best served in life, and there they dwell with their ‘chosen’ deity as petitioners, until they merge with the plane (their sentience dissolving), ascend to a planar form (an “angel” or some other sort of creature native to their god’s plane), or are reborn on the Prime Material Plane at the behest of their deity, either as themselves to fulfill some unfinished mission, or to live a new life.
All prohibitions and other details (such as non-dwarves are forbidden to enter the dwarf afterlife”) are pronouncements made by mortal clergy. They may be right, or wrong, mistaken or out-of-date, or there may be exceptions to what the clergy believe is an inflexible rule. Gods often do and say things that perplex mortals; that’s why “just plain folk” tolerate the existence of clergy, as experts who intercede and interpret.
So here’s the thing: according to Realmslore (tavern tales, legends, various books and other records) many adopted dwarves (i.e. non-dwarves) have seen the dwarf afterlife. Which would mean: non-dwarves are NOT forbidden to enter the dwarf afterlife.
Icewind Dale isn't a tundra
You do not say cairn like Karen. Drop the e sound.
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Wow you could not have mispronounced those town names more wronger!
its canada. icewinddale is canada